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Salve. To soothe labor's slow burn, the mobilization high command quickly made a salving gesture. Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston appointed George M. Harrison, president of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, to be a special assistant, specializing in price and wage issues. It was a salve-but not enough to quiet union leaders' grumbles...
...overpass, Illinois' Governor Adlai E. Stevenson, who had set off the bedlam by tugging the rope of an old dismantled locomotive bell, cried gleefully: "There are a hundred trains here, and I bet every one of them is late!" Just as gleefully, Illinois Central's President Wayne Johnston cried back: "I'll bet they...
...Labor was in high dudgeon last week over the handling of mobilization. To Washington officials stormed the A.F.L.'s William Green and the C.I.O.'s Philip Murray to file their complaints. They saw President Truman, Mobilizer Charles Wilson and Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston, whose big hello and sympathetic ear did little to calm them down. The mobilization program, grumbled Green and Murray, was being run by big business. To this, both Johnston and Wilson had an answer: they were willing to give a top union leader a top job if he took it on full-time just...
Finally, one afternoon last week, the Government was ready to bob the cat's tail. Ten minutes before a scheduled press conference was to begin, Johnston handed the wage order to Cyrus Ching, who hardly had time to skim through it before he lumbered into President Truman's press-conference room in the old State Department building. There he was joined by Mike DiSalle and his satchel. But before either had a chance to begin, a press officer let the big cat out of the bag: "Mr. DiSalle and Mr. Ching are here to discuss a wage & price...
...confusion and complaints were expected. Defense Mobilizer Charles Wilson, Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston and their lieutenants, now equipped with powers which make them a government-within-the-Government, turned immediately to the job of converting the stopgap decrees into detailed, workable programs which would bring prices and wages into balance and keep them there...